Word: swells
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...Long Island contingent," as some call them in Princeton, are harbingers of a ground swell in retirement strategies. "I'm turning 60," says University of Chicago psychologist Froma Walsh, "and I'm hearing it everywhere." What she's hearing are schemes, sometimes in the fantasy stage, sometimes more fully developed, for friends to stick together even after leaving their jobs and homes. No numbers exist on this trend; demographers can't track retirement castles in the air. But talk to people over 50, and almost all of them have heard it from a friend--if they're not sketching...
...MONSTERS, INC. It was a swell year for computer-generated cartoons. Shrek and Monsters, Inc. each had heart, spot-on gags and $200 million-plus domestic grosses. But if my desert island had a giant movie theater (or a DVD player), I'd choose the latest miracle from director Pete Docter and the Pixar crowd. This is a buddy movie and a daddy movie, about two creatures who inadvertently adopt a nosy little girl. It's got pictorial dazzle and an uncommon generosity of spirit, and it ends with the sweetest, rightest shot of the movie year...
strong>6. Monsters, Inc. It was a swell year for computer-generated cartoons. Shrek and Monsters, Inc. each had heart, spot-on gags and $200 million-plus domestic grosses. But if my desert island had a giant movie theater (or a DVD player), I'd choose the latest miracle from director Pete Docter and the Pixar crowd. This is a buddy movie and a daddy movie, about two creatures who inadvertently adopt a nosy little girl. It's got pictorial dazzle and an uncommon generosity of spirit, and it ends with the sweetest, rightest shot of the movie year...
...murky, slightly incomprehensible plot to peddle an elaborate and hugely expensive necklace to the Queen and keep the profits, even though she did not own the jewelry. When she was placed on trial for this crime, much about the decadence and indifference of the monarchy came out and helped swell revolutionary passions among the populace...
...started to swell and it was really bother him,” Harvard Coach John Kerr said...